Combined figure toy and bank.



H. W. A. FUHRMANN.

COMBINED FIGURE TOY AND BANK.

APPLICATION FILED Dec. 9, 1914.

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COLUMBIA FLANBGRAPN ISO-.WASHINGTON. Dvc.

HENRY W. A. FUHRMANN, OF ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED FIGURE TOY AND BANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1915.

Application filed. December 9, 1914. Serial No. 876,212.

To all whom it may conc rn Be it known that I, HENRY W. A. FUHR- MANN, acitizen of the United States, re-

siding at Alhambra, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined FigureToys and Banks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to novelties including toy and bank features, andit has for its object to provide such a novelty as will be attractive,pleasing, amusing or entertaining in use, and capable of service forstoring coins, and which will be superior in point of relativesimplicity and inexpensiveness in construction taken in connection withthe other features above mentioned, and positiveness in operation,facility and convenience in control, and general efliciency for thepurposes in view.

\Vith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel provision, construction, combination, association and relativearrangement of parts, members and features, all as hereinafterdescribed, shown in the drawing and finally pointed out in claims.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a side view of an improved novelty device ortoy and bank constructed in accordance with the invention, the workingparts being generally shown in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsectional view taken on the line m*a; Fig. 3, and looking in thedirection of the appended arrows, showing the working parts released and"extended, such working parts being shown contracted or housed in Fig.1; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the device; Fig. 4 is a longitudinalsectional view taken on the line af-mfiFig. 3, and looking in thedirection of the appended arrows: Fig. 5 is an end view of the devicelooking in the direction of the large arrow in Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is adetail vertical transverse sectional view taken on the line :ca2, Fig.3, and looking in the direction of the appended arrows; and Fig. 7 is ahorizontal transverse sectional view taken on the line 0c m Fig. 5andlooking in the direction of the appended arrows.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are designated by the samereference characters.

' Referring with particularity to .the drawing, the novelty device showntherein comprises a shell A which may be formed initially in two partsupon a junction line 0,

upon which line the parts may be soldered or otherwise attached togetherto hold them with the contained features in assemblage, in the form of ahousing, Z) and 0 designating respectively the two halves of thehousing.

A vertical longitudinal partition (Z is provided approximately in theplane of junction of the two members of the shell or housing, producinga compartment. 6 within the member 6 for the storage of coins, a coinslot f being provided through the top of the member 6 for the admissionof such coins, and through which such coins may be discharged byinverting the device and shaking the coins therefrom, or separating thetwo members or breaking the housing, all in accordance with choice orthe particular for mation of the housing and arrangement of the slot.Three other longitudinal slots, one, 9, adjacent to the top of thehousing, one, it, adjacent to the bottom of the housing, and

one, lc, adjacent to one end of the housing,

are provided therein, preferably in the memher 0, through which may beprojected movable members, Z, m and n, adapted to be collapsed withinthe housing and held in such collapsed position or condition by a latchdevice 79. This latch device is disposed adjacent to the coin slot f, sothat the insertion of a coin frees the three members,

held by thelatch device from the latter, permitting them to'berespectively projected through the three slots last named, by projeetingmeans r, s and 23 respectively associated with said three members. Suchlatter members may be formed or configured in any preferred or desiredmanner, as for instance, to represent portions of the anatomy of a fowl,the housing itself having the general conformation of an egg, and be ingconfigured, exteriorly, as to one member, 0, to represent wing and bodyfeathers of such fowl, as at 8, whereby, when the three projectablemembers are extended as stated the device simulates in appearance afowl, the operation involving the projection of said members producingthe visible effect of instantaneously hatching such fowl from the eggrepresented by the housing. In such act,

. preferably the smooth side or unfeathered the feathered side plus theextended or projected members are presented to view, the

instantaneous transition thus being presented of the production of afowl from an egg. The member Z may thus represent, as shown, the headand neck portion of a fowl, being pivoted to the partition (Z, as at 9;the member at may represent as shown the legs of the fowl, being pivotedto the partition d similarly by a pin as at 10, and the member nrepresenting the tail feathers of the fowl, and hinged to the partition(Z similarly by a pin 11.

A piece of stiff spring wire bent about the pin 9 between its ends andbearing upon a pin 12 attached to the member Z at one end and aboutanother pin 13 attached to the partition (Z at the other end,constitutes the means 1 for projecting the member Z. A piece of Stiffspring wire 11 bent around the pin 10 between its ends and hearing atone end upon the pin 13 and at the other end upon a pin 15 attached tothe member m constitutes the projecting means 8, and a piece of stiffspring wire 16 bent between its ends around the pin 11 and hearing atone end upon a pin 17 attached to the partition d and at its other endupon a pin 18 attached to the member 11 constitutes the means ofprojection t.

The latch device 79 consists of a latch bar 19 secured within the coincompartment e upon an extension of the pin 9, and having a hook-shapedfree outer-end 19 passing through a slot in the partition d and adaptedto engage the member n when in contracted position to hold it and theother projectable members in contracted or collapsed positions, themember m to that end being provided with a nose 20 riding over the pin12 upon the member Z; and the pin 18 upon the member n engaging with themember 712, all as shown clearly. Upon the insertion of a coin throughthe slot f and between the latch 79 and the partition (Z, the latch willbe bent away from the partition to withdraw the hook-shaped end 19 andso free the member a. An auxiliary trip device "60 which consists of aspring tongue 21 comprising the loosened end of one of the wing feathersof the feather formation 8 on the member 0, is provided at its extremitywith a pin 22 ranging inwardly of the member 0 and through a suitableslot in the partition d to be pressed against the latch bar 19 to flexit outwardly from the partition and withdraw the hooked end 19 thereoffrom the member 11-.

In the use of the device, with the parts assembled as described andshown in the drawing, and collapsed within the housing A, it is onlynecessary to release the latch bar hook 19 from the member 12, to permitthe springs of the projecting means '1", s and tto operate in an orderthe inverse of that stated, whereby it results that practicallysimultaneously all of said members are protracted position, then tosimilarly project inwardly the member m, and finally to similarlyproject inwardly the member a, whereupon the hook 19* will-engage withthe member a and hold all of the parts in collapsed condition by theirinter-engagement as above described, in opposition to the ten dency ofthe three springs which are prepared to again project such members whenthe member a is released from the hook 19 as above described. The member72 will ride A without assistance into engagement with the hook 19 thesimulated feather formation thereof being notched as clearly shown inFig. 4; to permit this. j

The device is attractive and novel and amusing and interesting in use,and also may be of utility for use as'a bank forstoring come. The coinstorage feature or bank use of the device may of course be dispensedwith, and the device operated irrespective of any such use, bymanipulating thelatch device 79 through means of the trip device to orany equivalent suitable means.

It is manifest that many changes in the construction, arrangement andcombination of features may be made with respect to that above describedand disclosed in the drawing, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

Having thus disclosed my invention, 1

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A novelty device, comprising a chambered egg-shaped body adapted tocontain in retracted position a pivotedmember representing the head of afowl, a pivoted member representing the legs of a fowl, and a pivotedmember representing the tail feathers of a fowl, said body beingprovided with apertures through which said members may be projectedoutwardly, spring means. urging said members-outwardly, certain of saidmembers acting each to retain another of said members in retracted positonwithin the body, and retaining means actmg upon one of said members toreleasably hold all... of said members in retracted position within thebody.

2. A novelty device, comprising a chambered egg-shaped body adapted tocontain -1I1 retracted posltion a pivoted member rep-W,

resenting the head of a fowl, a pivoted member representing the legs ofa fowl, and a pivoted member representing the tail feathers of a fowl,said body being provided with apertures through which said members maybe projected outwardly, spring means urging said members outwardly,certain of said members acting each to retain another of said members inretracted position within the body, and retaining means acting upon oneof said members to releasably hold all of said members in retractedposition within the body; said body being formed upon one sideexteriorly to represent the body and wing feathers of a fowl.

3. A novelty device, comprising a chambered egg-shaped body adapted tocontain in retracted position a pivoted member representing the head ofa fowl, a pivoted member representing the legs of a fowl, and a pivotedmember representing the tail feathers of a fowl, said body beingprovided with apertures through which said members may be projectedoutwardly, spring means urging said members outwardly, certain of saidmembers acting each to retain another of said members in retractedposition within the body, and retaining means acting upon one of saidmembers to releasably hold all of said members in retracted positionwithin the body; and a coin compartment being provided within the bodyand having a coin slot adjacent to said retaining means whereby theinsertion of a coin acts to free said members from said retaining means.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. A. FUHRMANN. Witnesses: FRANCIS L. ISGRIGGu ALFRED H. DAEHLER.

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